If buying the Xiaomi Mi 4 is part of your plans this year and you live in India, sorry to be the bearer of bad news but that will be harder than Samsung acquiring Apple, unless…

Unless you are ready to gamble with third-party retailers who ship products from China. You can buy the Mi 4 at a pricer cost though the problem will be getting the 3G and LTE bands to correspond with your network carrier’s. However, in 2015 January, Xiaomi will officially bring the Mi 4 to India, an insider tells us.

Speaking of the Xiaomi Redmi Note. The 5.5″ phablet will launch in the Indian market in November. An official teaser sent last week suggested the smartphone might be on the way to launch this Diwali season but the prank (damn you Xiaomi) turned out to be something else. See below:

Share? Tomorrow? Many were fooled into thinking the Redmi Note was launching “tomorrow” (Oct 8)

Meanwhile, the existing Xiaomi smartphones in India — Redmi 1s and Mi 3 — are currently doing well and the success has caught the attention of Apple’s vice president and chief designer Jony Ive who branded the Chinese company as a thief. Xiaomi has since refuted the claims. Read the whole thingy here.

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